Low intensity peacefare and assymetric peacefare

(Glogs against Terror)

The enemy is within. We can no longer trust ourselves, individually,
or collectively. The old 20th century "Us vs. Them" arguments no
longer hold. We can no longer define an enemy over "There". The
enemy is right here, among us. Within us. Individually (within
our hearts and souls), and collectively (i.e. within our governments).

Surveillance will no longer save us. Not merely because it's
"Them" watcing "Us", but also because surveillance is a 20th century-ism.
Foucault described so eloquently, not only Bentham's Panopticon, but,
more importantly, I think, the opportunistic aspects of the Plague.
It was once said that "Authority Loves the Plague". Had Foucault been
writing today, he might have said "Government Loves Anthrax". Or Smallpox.
Or whatever. The anthrax didn't come from abroad. It came from within.
From within our continent. From within our own labs. Collectively.
(From within the labs of our own governments, or those governments
friendly to us.)

Surveillance, by its very nature, defines an "Us" and "Them" axis.
Axes of evil? Axes (x,y) meet at a point called the "origin" (0,0).
Where is the origin of the axes of evil? No amount of surveillance
will ever answer that question. Because surveillance only goes along
one direction on these axes. It always points outwards.
It never gets to the origin. Like the Yin and Yang, there must be two
somewhat equal and somewhat opposite forces, in order to have stability.
Positive and negative. Above and below. Sur and Sous.
So we balance surveillance with
sousveillance.
Watching from below.

The sousveillance machine

The sousveillance machine is ourselves. It's the machine from within.
The cyborg. And its medium is the Cyborg Logfile.
Cyborg logs ("glogs") provide a
stream-of-deconsciousness record of
personal experience. Such "glogs" are often webcast. In real time.
So would be perpetrators of terrorism (ourselves, or our governments)
are likely to get caught in the web of sousveillance.